The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars
(The Guardian Culture News)

As the awards celebrate their ninth decade, we look back on the times the Academy got it right when it came to the biggest prizeThe night of the Oscars ceremony - which was first held 90 years ago this May - is the one essential date in the movie world calendar, the giddy, glamorous apex of industry celebration. It´s fascinating and infuriating. But the Academy Awards don´t always get it right. In fact, on many now infamous occasions, they got it totally wrong.Giving How Green Was My Valley best picture over Citizen Kane, for example. But while there is always going to be debate over whether the best picture actually won best picture - merit is a difficult thing to quantify, after all - each year´s top prize winner and, perhaps more importantly, the reaction to it, tells us something about the cultural zeitgeist. Continue reading...